RoboSense Named Founding Member Of New Autoware Foundation -- Open Alliance For Autonomous Driving Technology

SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 13, 2018 -- RoboSense , CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree, leader in LiDAR technology solutions, announced today that it has been named founding member of The Autoware Foundation, a new open alliance for autonomous driving technology, established by Apex.AI, Linaro 96Boards, and Tier IV.

The Autoware Foundation is a non-profit organization created to initiate, grow, and fund open source collaborative engineering Autoware projects, including Autoware.AI, Autoware.Auto, and Autoware.IO. The Autoware project began in 2015 by Shinpei Kato at Nagoya University. Autoware.AI is used globally by 100+ companies in over 30 vehicles.

The Autoware Foundation has an impressive list of founding members, including RoboSense, Tier IV, Linaro/96Boards, Apex.AI, ARM, AutoCore, AutonomouStuff, eSOL, Intel Labs, Huawei/HiSilicon, Kalray, LG Electronics, Nagoya University, Open Robotics, Parkopedia, SEMI Japan, SiFive/RISC-V Foundation, StreetDrone, Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Velodyne LiDAR, and Xilinx.

"It's our greatest honor to become a Founding Member of the Autoware Foundation. By providing the best LiDAR system solutions comprised of LiDAR hardware and software, we will share our accumulation of technology knowledge in the LiDAR and autonomous driving industry, and provide our share of contribution to the Foundation," said Mark Qiu, Co-founder/COO, RoboSense.

Autoware.Auto is a rewrite of Autoware employing ROS 2.0 for certifiable software stacks used in vehicles. Autoware.IO focuses on as many ECUs as possible: heterogeneous architectures, vehicle control interfaces, and third-party software and tools to help deliver core values of Autoware. Autoware.IO projects include simulators, device drivers for sensors, by-wire controllers for vehicles, and hardware-independent programs for SoCboards.

Autoware Foundation's Board of Directors include Shinpei Kato,Tier IV and University of Tokyo; Jan Becker, Apex.AI and Stanford University; and Yang Zhang, Linaro/96Boards and Chinese Academy of Sciences AI Institute. They form the founding Board of Directors and are responsible for operations. A Technical Steering Committee is being formed from Premium Members driving technical direction. Autoware is based on ROS, and Brian Gerkey, Founder and CEO of Open Robotics (OSRF) is advisor to the foundation.

"The Autoware Foundation welcomes RoboSense as its founding Industry member. We recognize RoboSense's unique product offering and roadmap, as well as their commitment in supporting autonomous driving product development, pivoting on their LiDAR technology.I am very excited and look forward to closer collaboration with RoboSense in enabling advanced LiDAR solutions on heterogeneous autonomous driving platforms," said Yang Zhang, Board of Directors of The Autoware Foundation.

RoboSense recently announced the revolutionary RoboSenseRS-IPLS Intelligent Perception LiDAR autonomous driving system, a CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree. RS-IPLS is the first hardware/software algorithm solution for mass production of safer autonomous cars. RoboSense will exhibit at CES 2019 Booth #9310, North Hall.

For more information on The Autoware Foundation: auto@autoware.org, https://autoware.org.